Approximately 30 people were on hand at the Lander College of Arts and Sciences (LAS) in Flatbush on Sunday to commemorate the first annual award presentation of the Professor Faigie Wiederman-Francis Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Joshua November, an assistant professor at Lander College of Arts and Sciences – Flatbush, was invited to give a presentation on the topic of poetry and Jewish identity at an Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Chicago on March 1st.

New York, N.Y. – The Lander College for Men/Beis Medrash L’Talmud of Touro College will host a tribute dinner in honor of Rosh HaYeshiva Rav Abba Bronspigel in recognition of his extraordinary impact on Jewish education around the world. The dinner will take place on Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 6 PM at the Renaissance Ballroom in Brooklyn, New York.

New York, N.Y. - Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Dr. Robert J. Aumann will speak on “Modern Economic Theory in the Talmud” on Tuesday, December 2, at 8 p.m., at Touro College’s Lander College for Men, 75-31 150th Street, Kew Gardens Hills, NY. Admission is free and open to the public.